We measure how the world's news covered people being harmed — and the help and hope within it.
159 of its 256 stories (62%) were about people being harmed, usually 28%. Poonch accounted for 55 of Kashmir's 159 stories about harm, carried by 46 outlets. Reports of people killed ran at about 6 times the usual rate (128 stories). Heavy rain was named in 18 of its stories about harm, about 4 times usual. Its coverage was about 4 times as fearful as the world's.
61 of its 179 stories (34%) were about people being harmed, usually 24%. Colombo accounted for 37 of Sri Lanka's 61 stories about harm, carried by 64 outlets. 20 of Colombo's 37 stories were about protests or strikes. Reports of people injured ran at about 5 times the usual rate (15 stories). Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
656 of its 869 stories (75%) were about people being harmed, usually 61%. Khartoum accounted for 492 of Sudan's 656 stories about harm, carried by 580 outlets. Its coverage was about twice as angry as the world's.
19 of its 61 stories (31%) were about people being harmed, usually 19%. Reports of people killed ran at about twice the usual rate (5 stories).
341 of its 1,079 stories (32%) were about people being harmed, usually 26%. Reports of people injured ran at about three times the usual rate (169 stories). Illness was named in 42 of its stories about harm, about 4 times usual. Its coverage was about one and a half times as angry as the world's.
16 of its 18 stories (89%) were about people being harmed, usually 36%. Grief in its coverage rose to about one and a half times its own usual.
13 of its 40 stories (32%) were about people being harmed, usually 21%. Reports of arrests ran at about 6 times the usual rate (5 stories).
Reports of refugees ran at about 7 times the usual rate (15 stories). Its coverage was about twice as grief-stricken as the world's.
Sanaa accounted for 32 of Yemen's 42 stories about harm, carried by 44 outlets. Its coverage was about one and a half times as grief-stricken as the world's.
Reports of people displaced ran at more than ten times the usual rate (7 stories). Drought was named in 11 of its stories about harm, more than ten times usual.
Also named far more than usual: drought in Switzerland (11 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); illness in Russia (42 of its stories, about 4 times its usual); covid in Afghanistan (10 of its stories, about 6 times its usual); landslides in Vietnam (17 of its stories, more than ten times its usual); drought in Pakistan (12 of its stories, more than ten times its usual).
Stories about people being harmed, in every 100 stories, the 30 days to 21 Apr. The big dot is this day; the shaded band is a normal day (the 30 days before it). Click a day to open it. Based on 21,179 stories about harm among 121,413 counted on 21 Apr.
No day had a lower share of stories about people being harmed since 22 March 2023. Stories about people being harmed made up 17 in every 100 of the day's 121,413 stories, as usual. Mentions of the drought ran more than ten times their usual in Switzerland's news. In Kashmir, 62% of the news was about people being harmed, where 28% is usual. On 21 April 2022, a year earlier, the share was 21 in every 100, against 17 today.
Written by code from the day's numbers.
Countries with at least 50 stories that day.
Stories, not people.
The day's biggest events: attacks, accidents and disasters, people displaced, protests, outbreaks. Bigger dot: more stories. Ranked by the share of the day's outlets that reported it and how clearly it was about one thing, the same way for every place and year; the news data does not say who attacked whom, so both sides of a war appear where the news put them. Click a dot for its stories.
Of the stories about people being harmed, what part of life each was about. The mark is usual.
Stories that report it, not people: we count what reporters wrote, not what happened.
The words in the day's stories were about as usual. Filled dot: today. Ring: usual.
From the words reporters used across the whole day, never one story. Fear is the weakest of the four measures. How?
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